Dilute the sample and stir it for some time. After that, centrifuge it to remove any undissolved protein and carefully take the supernatant that contain soluble protein. U may even try this repeatedly and optimize the storage conditions for your protein.
Thank you very much. I found no target protein in the MS result of the supernatant. And the precipitation can't dissolve in the range from pH 3.0 to 12.0, I tried ultrasonic, waterbath, some organic solvent, they are all noneffective. Maybe there was some thing wrong in my operation.
In case of aggregated condition, as pointed out by Omar, you may try using either of the two methods discussed in one of our papers. Hope this may be of help!!!
There is a pair of -SH group in my protein, and they should be forming C-C in the renaturation phase. Why the hydrophobic effect impact solubility? Can you tell me more about about? Thank you very much. I down loaded the paper, I will read it later. I am not sure if the Urea or Guanidine suitable for my protein, we want to purify the protein and it must be active. By the way, how can I reply your answer respectively?
if it is an inclusion body, just try to dissove it in urea/guanidine-HCl and regain the native state by diluting in pulse. that will slowly decrease the urea/gu conc. without misfolding.